Health Bytes Archive October 2009

The wheezing. The tightness across your chest. The horror of being unable to breathe. These are all nightmares an asthma sufferer faces daily.

Brush and floss daily and you'll have a beautiful set of pearly whites to flash at the world with every smile... But more importantly, you'll avoid raising your risk of serious diseases.

For once it seems mainstream is throwing their conventional thinking out the window and actually publishing natural treatments! And what better way to start than by telling us how to prevent age-related vision loss!

Tell your fathers, sons, brothers, husbands and uncles… Prostate cancer survival may be significantly longer among men who have the highest intake of this common vitamin.

Phytosterols are solid, unsaturated fat compounds that naturally occur in the fatty tissues of certain plants. Research has proven that they lower cholesterol and reduce heart disease - Now there's new research to show that they could help prevent and treat cancer too!

It's important to your body's survival to get minerals and vitamins - you know this. But with today's quality of food, most of us aren't even getting the basic nutrients. So what should you be doing to ensure your cells are well-fed?

A new study reveals that danger may be lurking in varicose veins. The clots from these unsightly veins could lead to pulmonary embolisms and thromboembolisms - which left undetected and untreated - could be deadly.

People say the eyes are the windows of the soul... But there's one thing they don't normally say about your eyes: That they could indicate heart failure.

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